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bdewey
org-ruby
Ruby2012–2015
bdewey / org-ruby

org-ruby

This gem contains Ruby routines for parsing org-mode files. The most significant thing this library does today is convert org-mode files to HTML or textile.

3Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
178GitHub stars
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What it is

This gem contains Ruby routines for parsing org-mode files. The most significant thing this library does today is convert org-mode files to HTML or textile.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-06-17 06:16:05 UTC to 2015-06-27 21:09:20 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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> A little known fact, even among most org-users: Github can render > org-mode files to HTML directly if checked into a repo, thus you can > write your README files as org-files. I recently stumbled across the tidbit. The Ruby library Github uses to generate it though isn't 100% though. If you want to use org-mode properties for style customization of html output your SOL. Original project: https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby Currently, you cannot do much to customize the conversion. The supplied textile conversion is optimized for extracting “content” from the orgfile as opposed to “metadata.” It does say that developement has moved to: https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby Which has no such note, but doesn't say anything about supporting it.
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